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Natural skincare products

If you favour natural cosmetics and are well versed in organic unguents, you may want to try biodynamic beautifiers for that extra-special something. Dr Alkaitis skincare, the latest cosmetics brand to cross the Atlantic, certainly goes one step further. Using ingredients harvested in tune with the cycles of the moon (apparently, it maximises their healing properties), the range has created a buzz among beauty insiders, not least because we're intrigued by any supermodel's skin secret (Karolina Kurkova and Angela Lindvall are fans). And not only are his ingredients biodynamic and organic, they're also kept in their "living" state during the formulating. "I approach skin as a complete living organism," says Alkaitis, a scientist who specialises in the healing properties of plants. "If you feed an organism healthy, living food, it is going to function better and look more attractive." Hence, there are no synthetic ingredients, only extracts of plants, flowers,